Messages in this thread | | | From | Jani Nikula <> | Subject | Re: [Intel-gfx] [PATCH] drm/i915/opregion: work around buggy firmware that provides 8+ output devices | Date | Mon, 08 Dec 2014 13:04:34 +0200 |
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On Mon, 08 Dec 2014, Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> wrote: > On Mon, 08 Dec 2014, Aaron Lu <aaron.lu@intel.com> wrote: >> We have a new bug report that has the same problem: >> https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88941 >> >> The posted patch solves the problem. I know it's not perfect, but it >> doesn't seem it would do any harm to existing systems so should be safe. >> >> Better, if someone can shed some light on how this should be properly >> handled, that would be great. > > There was a bug report that I can't find right now that had a similar > problem. I wrote a few patches, even somewhat polished ones (that I now > pushed to [1] for reference) to handle extended DIDL. Unfortunately this > didn't help the bug reporter because the right one was beyond the > extended DIDL too, so I don't think I even sent these to the list. > > Anyway, just one more data point. This might help your reporter, so > worth a try. But it doesn't solve everything.
[1] http://cgit.freedesktop.org/~jani/drm/log/?h=didl
-- Jani Nikula, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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